OSIRIS-REx

Over a year after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is inbound for a close flyby of Earth on Friday to use the planet’s gravity to bend the spacecraft’s trajectory and place it on a path approaching asteroid Bennu

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Spacecraft, already sixteen million Kilometers from Earth, so far has passed all core systems checks as it settles in for a long mission to link up with and return a sample from Asteroid Bennu.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer took the first leap in a long journey through the solar system on Thursday, lifting off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket on a long-awaited mission to touch an asteroid to answer the long standing question on the origins life.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer took the first leap in a long journey through the solar system on Thursday, lifting off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket on a long-awaited mission to touch an asteroid to answer the long standing question on the origins life.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer reached its launch pad on Wednesday after a 12-year development effort, but the real journey lies ahead for the spacecraft setting sail on Thursday on a seven-year odyssey through the Solar System

NASA and United Launch Alliance have cleared the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return spacecraft to head into final preparations for a Thursday evening liftoff from Florida’s space coast on a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Explorer has taken its seat atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will give the spacecraft a boost next week to escape the Earth and set sail on a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back to accomplish the first U.S. sample return from an asteroid.